Improvement in removable refrigerators for pails



Removable Refrigerator for Pails,&c.

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B. JONES.

Pat ented July 27,1875.

N.FETE.RS. PHOTO UTNOG HER, WASHINGTON D 0 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES C. JONES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

lMPROVEMENT IN REMOVABLE REFRIGERATORS FOR PA|L$,&c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,110, dated July 27, 1875; application filed June 23, 1875.

To all whomit may concern Be it known that I, JAMES C. JONES, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Removable Refrigerator, for Pails, Gasks, and other vessels; and I do hereby declare that the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification.

My invention relates to a means for keeping shelled oysters and similar articles in a state of preservation while being transported in pails, casks, or other vessels. 7 4

The invention consists in a novel construction of a removable lining and attached icechamber, to be used in connection with a pail, cask, or other vessel or package, as hereinafter particularly described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a vertical sectional "iew, representing my invention as applied to a covered pail or other vessel. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

A represents a pail or vessel, of any suitable construction, provided with a cover, a, furnished with suitable fastenings. B is the removable lining, which is made preferably of sheet metal. It is of cylindrical, tapering, or othersuitable form, corresponding with that of the vessel in which it is to be used. The upper end of the lining B is open, and its lower end may be open, or may be provided with an attached bottom, I) or, said metallic bottom, b, may, if desired, be attached to the bottom of the vessel A. The diameter of the lining B is slightly less than that of the vessel A, so as to leave a space, 0, between the inner surface of the vessel and the outer sur- .face of the lining. In order to center and surface of the vessel. In the upper part of the lining B is a chamber, 0, for holding ice; which chamber-extends diametrically across the center of the lining, and has its ends closed by an attachment thereto. The chainber may be of a tapering, tronghlike form, as shown in Fig. l, or of any other suitable form. The top ofthe chamber is on a level with thetop of the lining, and it may extend downward to any suitable depth. The chamber O is provided with a pipe, 6?, extending downward from its bottom and passingthrough the bottom of the vessel A, for the purpose of carrying off the drippings from the ice placed in the chamber. if desired, there may be conducting wings extending from the tube and chamber to the sides of the lining; but as the ice-chamber connects directly with the lining, the metal thereof serves as a conducting medium.

The oysters or other articles are placed in the lining B, and the ice is placed in the icechamber 0, and the lid of the vessel A is closed and secured in position so as to exclude the air and hold the lining in place and, by reason of the conducting properties of the metal, the contents of the lining are kept cold and in a perfect state of preservation. The lining thus constructed may be readily removed from the pail or vessel when'desired.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The removable open-topped lining B, provided with the ice-chamber (J, having its ends closed by attachment to said lining, and furnished with the central wastepipe d, as herein shown and described.

J. O. JONES. Witnesses:

HENRY T. BROWN, MICHAEL RYAN. 

